May - 2019

Track Plans Gallery

On this page you can view many of the layout designs I have created for other modelers in recent years. You can use the filter buttons and site search to locate plans by scale, prototype, state, size, and other characteristics.

I use a simple 2D CAD program called MacDraft to do my layout planning. It is not specialized for model railroading, but I've been using it a long time and it meets my needs.

Here are a couple of resources that you can freely download and distribute for non-commercial purposes:

Bob's Track Planning Questionnaire is the document I use to gather basic information for designing a plan. It might help you organize your own "Givens n' Druthers." It's a fillable Microsoft Word doc.

Bob's Curve and Grade Calculator is an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. It can calculate the length of tracks at various curve radii and grades, along with train lengths and other functions for N, HO, S, and O scales. Have fun.

Larry VanDusen's B&O Capital and Keystone

Focusing on Baltimore and tracks in the streets, this plan adds some flavor of Brunswick in a buildable single deck plan. Download PDF

Larry VanDusen's B&O Capital and Keystone

Pravin Wilfred's Lehigh Line

A large sectional track plan, designed for preexisting benchwork. This uses Kato Unitrak in N Scale. Pravin wanted to model the large container terminals he passes on his way to work, so I based this very loosely on the Elizabeth-Newark area of New Jersey, borrowing a little mountain scenery from the Delaware Water Gap area. Download PDF